Where You Go, I Go Too, Lindstrøm
Lindstrøm starts off 2008 right with an album that, if you didn't know what it contained, you might very skeptical about parting with your money for. Here's the official word though: Do it, you sissy.
WHERE YOU GO, I GO TOO is a dense, slow-starting, pulsating 55 odd minutes of electronic production from the depths of Norway.
Moody Motorcycle, Human Highway
There will always be a soft spot in my heart for those crazy pop assholes The Unicorns. The antics that they used to pull, trying to break up the band while playing a song, or purposefully screwing up a live performance just because one of them had a fight with another, well it was no surprise when they broke up.
Don't Be A Stranger, The Moondoggies
Despite their reputation as coon huntin', sister marryin', mob lynchin' small-minded pricks - rednecks ain't all bad. Hell, us hipsters and gay urban males stole half our wardrobe from them.
Beyond dressin' well, those rednecks know how to ROCK. And you can hear the twang of every check flannelled, working class band from Creedence Clearwater Revival to The Band to the Doobie Brothers on DON'T BE A STRANGER, the debut from Seattle's Moondoggies.
Background Briefing
We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims of Web 2.0, social media and lifecasting, listening to BACKGROUND BRIEFING is like taking a warm bath in journalism juice.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING truly is Aunty at her finest - rational, thorough and educational.
Devotion, Beach House
Baltimore girlfriend/boyfriend duo Beach House have achieved an increasingly difficult feat; they've created a sound that is both instantly recognisable yet entirely new. Like a new buddy at a party you feel like you've known for years.
Their second album, DEVOTION, combines the atmosphere of David Lynch's creepy small town Americana with the fifties girl groups on Quaaludes.
The Savage Lovecast
Do you plan to have intercourse in the next six months? Scratch that. Do you ever you plan to have intercourse? If your answer is a resounding "F!*k yes" then you would be well advised to listen to THE SAVAGE LOVECAST. For the unaware, Dan Savage is a (and here, if I were speaking to you, I would obnoxiously preface the first term with "quote, unquote") sex adviser and podcaster based out of Chicago.
O Soundtrack My Heart, Pivot
The problem with so much jazz and electronic music is its dry, cerebral nature. Translation: it could use a nice big pair of old-fashioned balls.
Aussie trio Pivot's sophomore release O SOUNDTRACK MY HEART (their first for hugely influential UK label Warp) has all the smarts of a chemistry professor, yet still swings big balls like a longshoreman.
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